Art Architecture category: 42682 books

Das Symposium «Maria Biljan-Bilger und Kunst im öffentlichen Raum», das begleitend zur Ausstellung im Jänner 2013 im Künstlerhaus Wien abgehalten wurde, sollte an die Künstlerin erinnern, die nach 1945 in der Wiener Kulturlandschaft als Mitbegründerin des Art Club und durch ihre zahlreichen...

Integrate poetics into real-world spaces by bringing theory down to earth Practical Poetics in Architecture takes poetics out of the theory class and into the design studio, showing architects how the atmospheric and experiential qualities of built structures can be intentionally considered...

Co-édité par les unités d’archéologie classique et d’histoire de l’art, en partenariat avec l’équipe d’accueil Histara de l’Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes à Paris, le volume réunit les actes d’un colloque organisé à Genève les 11 et 12 avril 2011. Il se focalise sur l’extraordinaire...

Présentation de l'Editeur sur ce livre "L'Art du Feng Shui - Maitrisez les Eléments" Un secret rapporté de la chine antique, mais toujours d'Actualité ! " Découvrez comment le Feng Shui peut transformer votre vie et considérablement améliorer votre bien-être ! " Si vous...

Trois œuvres pour le moins confidentielles. De l’art là où on ne l’attend pas, au cœur d’un hôpital, d’une morgue ou d’un institut de lutte contre le cancer... Récemment créées par des artistes contemporains de renom en collaboration avec des architectes, ces trois réalisations...

LE VISAGE ET LE PORTRAIT sont les deux points d’ancrage de la problématique abordée dans cet ouvrage. Ces termes révèlent une certaine classification dans la pensée occidentale, et ils traduisent en même temps leur relative fragilité. Que recouvrent aujourd’hui ces mots et quels contenus...

An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insights...

In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built...

A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent...

The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our...

An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods,...

This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from...

When Marjorie Hill graduated in 1920 as Canada’s "first girl architect," she was entering a profession that had been established in Canada just 30 years earlier. For the Record, the first history of women architects in Canada, provides a fascinating introduction to early women architects,...

This magnificent display of all 166 plates from an extremely rare set of portfolios depicts scores of examples of the ironworker's art, among them beautiful gates, balustrades, balcony railings, window grilles, church screens, and lantern holders. A superb collection of royalty-free images for use by designers, architecture enthusiasts, and lovers of antiques.